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Question No.13

WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH & WELFARE

TO A QUESTION BY THE HON. HUI YIN-FAT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY 1987

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Question: Will Government inform this Council:

(a)

of the existing supervision ratio of casework supervisor to caseworkers in Social Welfare Department's family services centres;

Sir,

(b)

of the caseload of the Department's social workers dealing with child abuse cases;

and

(c)

whether consideration will be given to improving the supervision ratio in (a) and reducing the caseload in (b) in order to provide better services to the community?

The existing supervisory ratio in the Social Welfare Department's family services centres is 1 supervisor (at the rank of Social Work Officer) to 10 social workers (i.e. a mixture of Assistant Social Work Officers, Senior Social Work

The department Assistants, and Social Work Assistants).

considers the present supervisory ratio satisfactory and has no plans to improve it; but the department will continue its present efforts to improve the workload which at present

averages 99 cases per worker.

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